Word: eastport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boarding the Indianapolis off Eastport, Me., President Roosevelt received all traditional honors. He walked across a short gangplank from the destroyer which brought him offshore...
Most northerly point of President Roosevelt's vacation cruise was his summer home at Campobello Island, New Brunswick, four miles from Eastport, Me., which he visited for the first time since the shock of its cold waters brought on his paralysis twelve years ago. There, his most serious guest was Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis, come to report that in spite of all his efforts, the Geneva Arms Conference had adjourned to October. Its 14-year record of accomplishment still o, many pronounced the Conference a dead fish. But President Roosevelt, bland, told a Campobello crowd...
From Nantucket around Cape Cod, across Massachusetts Bay to Norman's Woe ("It was the schooner Hesperus") and Gloucester, behind Cape Ann, through Casco Bay and up the jagged coast of Maine toward Eastport, Franklin Roosevelt last week piloted his 45-ft. Amberjack II on the sportiest, saltiest vacation the country had ever watched its President take. He dressed in old flannel trousers and a grey sweater under oil skins. He did not bother too much about shaving. Sun and spray tanned his face, widened his grin. He smacked over codfish balls, baked beans, brown bread. And even...
Following the dimensions of the country, the model would be 2,807 feet at its longest point east and west, representing the distance between West Quoddy Head, near Eastport, Maine, to a point due west on the Pacific Ocean. The longest north-south dimension of the model would be 1,598 feet, representing the distance from the southernmost point in Texas to a point due north to the 49th parallel...